I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Baudelaire

The Roses of Heliogabalus, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1888)

Arresting someone for asking a question ain’t a display of strength. It’s a display of weakness.

Francesca Scorsese accompanied her dad, Martin Scorsese, to the 71st Taormina Film Festival in Italy.

She still has to understand that the US left the scene completely and we Europeans are alone in this, she somehow thinks she’s friends with Trump and he’ll let her sit on the fence

I noticed this too. It’s like one of those dystopian movies where the government has been taken over by a private business.

It reminds me of a current Italian minister (and Musk supporter) who promised to activate the 'ruspa', meaning a bulldozer, if elected. He was referring to his intent to end immigration and essentially 'clean out' the country—much like what this other fellow of his seems to be planning.

New Zealand parliament's youngest member Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke performs a haka in protest of a controversial bill that would reinterpret an 184 year old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

Funny enough, the Italian word for ‘cabinet’ is ‘gabinetto’, which also means ‘toilet’. People here always joke about this when ministers and presidents appoint members to their cabinets, you are free to guess how—and now you can do it too! 😅

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes